pranab mukherjee

For civilisations to survive, the sanctity of the word will have to be upheld and any attempts to suppress it must be thwarted, former president Pranab Mukherjee said Thursday while giving away awards for literary works in regional languages here.

Former president Pranab Mukherjee has been awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, by President Ram Nath Kovind, in a decision which the BJP is likely to hail as a sign of its broad-minded and non-partisan approach to politics.

Former President Pranab Mukherjee, Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika were on Friday conferred the country’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna. The Bharat Ratna has been conferred after a gap of four years.

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